BERKSHIRE TALES OF MYSTERY AND MURDER.

Softcover. Each county holds within it a store of amazing mysteries and chilling murders - Berkshire is no exception. This collection of stories includes the brutal decapitation of Ann Pullin, a Wantage publican; the discovery of a tiny elm coffin in the belfry of Thatcham's parish church during repairs; the suffocation of a Maidenhead mother-of-three by her out-of-work boyfriend; the spontaneous combustion of a Reading woman in November 1978; and a bare-knuckle-fight that led to the death of an aristocratic pupil at Eton College. Mystery and magic are brought together at Boxford and Winterbourne where the tale of Wizard Palmer and his supernatural powers sounds like a Harry Potter experience. Other tales recount the attempt on the life of King William IV at Royal Ascot in June 1832; the threatening behaviour of a Reading poltergeist which also stole shoes; the dreadful murder of a 7yr. old girl by her drunken father near Windsor; the discovery of a serial wife-killer in Watchfield in 1893, and a puzzling time slip experienced by a couple in Cookham. Illus. 126pp. softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.